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A Complete History of Medieval Grimoires | Occult History | Human Voiced, No Ads

00:00:00 Introduction and Welcome 00:01:41 What Is a Grimoire? 00:06:05 The Ancient Roots Solomon and the Magical Papyri 00:10:16 Picatrix The Goal of the Sage 00:15:08 Learned Magic Arrives in the Latin West 00:20:21 Ars Notoria Magic for Scholars 00:24:32 The Sworn Book of Honorius 00:28:02 The Munich Handbook A Necromancer's Manual 00:32:28 The Clerical Underworld Who Actually Used Grimoires? 00:36:36 Condemnation, Inquisition and the Burning of Books 00:40:39 Jewish, Islamic and Byzantine Magical Books 00:44:06 The Book of Abramelin A Medieval Mystery 00:47:02 The Key of Solomon 00:50:02 The Lesser Key and the Seventy-Two Spirits 00:53:13 What the Rituals Actually Involved Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXFf7OgCuOdcygnWp32Xk6g/join Support the channel on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ASMRHistorian Merch: https://histmerch.shop/ Sources and Further Reading Kieckhefer, Richard. 1997. Forbidden Rites: A Necromancer’s Manual of the Fifteenth Century. Kieckhefer, Richard. 1989. Magic in the Middle Ages. Davies, Owen. 2009. Grimoires: A History of Magic Books. Boudet, Jean-Patrice. 2006. Entre science et nigromance: astrologie, divination et magie dans l’Occident médiéval. Attrell, Dan and Porreca, David (trans.). 2019. Picatrix: A Medieval Treatise on Astral Magic. Véronèse, Julien. 2007. L’Ars notoria au Moyen Âge. Fanger, Claire. 2015. Rewriting Magic: An Exegesis of the Visionary Autobiography of a Fourteenth-Century French Monk. Hedegård, Gösta. 2002. Liber Iuratus Honorii: A Critical Edition of the Latin Version of the Sworn Book of Honorius. Page, Sophie. 2013. Magic in the Cloister: Pious Motives, Illicit Interests, and Occult Approaches to the Medieval Universe. Marathakis, Ioannis. 2011. The Magical Treatise of Solomon or Hygromanteia. Information sourced from Wiki, Gutenburg, JSTOR, primary and secondary sources. All information is congruent with archaeological and history evidence at the time of recording.

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